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Fish Market
Fish Market
daklein


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Challenge: Environmental Portrait II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Location: Morogoro, Tanzania Fish market
Date: Mar 13, 2008
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Portraiture, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Mar 18, 2008

I took this in Morogoro, Tanzania when we went to a fish market. Smells, smoke, screams all made the scene magical.

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 159
Avg (all users): 6.5730
Avg (commenters): 7.4286
Avg (participants): 6.7500
Avg (non-participants): 6.5261
Views since voting: 1841
Views during voting: 469
Votes: 267
Comments: 26
Favorites: 1 (view)


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03/31/2008 01:39:19 PM
a lovely image, the forced perspective, the angles of his arms, the colours and textures, all just wonderful. plus, i love tanzania, and dimly remember driving through morogoro (we did 15,000k in a small car in 5 weeks...)
03/26/2008 07:12:40 AM
I found this shot very attractive, and much more appealing to me than the blue ribbon of this challenge. Sometimes, I wondered about the votes!

In any events, it is a simple shot, very well framed, wonderful dof (thanks the for the fantastic Nikon 17-55mm lens!), the action is well taken and the atmosphere feels real! That would be a fantastic journalistic photograph.

This picture deserved to be in the top 3
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03/26/2008 12:18:49 AM
excellent job for your first entry! Glad to see this shot did so well.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/25/2008 04:30:37 PM
great photo, but.... where's the fish?
03/25/2008 09:40:58 AM
great shot! love the use of DoF and perspective.
03/24/2008 08:49:09 AM
Great perspective! Interesting composition. I like that his face is in focus.
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03/24/2008 08:46:58 AM
Emotive and so well done..... I like this one a lot........
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03/22/2008 07:25:12 PM
Perfect capture of someone in action, doing what they do. He is completely in the moment and you caught him there.
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03/22/2008 01:58:19 PM
Really like the point of view on this shop, I just hoped you dont get dinged because there are no fish in site (salting and icing tables is absolutely valid as far as I am concerned for the challenge)

Nice dof and a very striking image
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03/22/2008 11:41:48 AM
I really like the angle of this shot. Well done 8
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03/21/2008 07:11:49 PM
presuming it's the end of the day cause no fish in sight, but I like the angles here, 7
03/21/2008 01:45:30 PM
Thank you for this. He is interacting with his environment and his environmnet defines who is.
03/21/2008 10:02:18 AM
nice pov... but where's the fishies? nice job tho!
03/21/2008 12:24:20 AM
Wicket shot. Only thing is: where is the fish?
03/20/2008 12:57:17 PM
I bet you're hearing comments like "where are the fish?" It's a well taken shot but would have been far stronger with some fishies in it. IMO?
03/20/2008 11:42:16 AM
what an excellent pov. i am kinda torn between two choices. (1) his face being in main focus (2) your choice of having his hand and utensil in focus. considering this is an environmental "portrait" challenge, i would prefer the 1st one. i like everything about the photograph, so wont hurt your average score too much, if at all...6
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03/20/2008 08:28:26 AM
meets challenge perfectly, very interesting POV. focus should be rather on his face than on the "tool"
03/20/2008 04:34:21 AM
amazing love it
03/19/2008 09:12:50 PM
What kind of lens did you use to make his arms appear so long?
03/19/2008 04:40:27 PM
great shot and great perspective
03/19/2008 04:21:14 PM
Definite 10 from me. Great angle and dof.
03/19/2008 01:34:54 PM
Nice action captured with this shot. Wish there was a fish on the table or something similar to match the caption
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03/19/2008 05:26:07 AM
LOVE the POV on this one
03/19/2008 02:47:27 AM
Nice angle and great working portrait.
03/19/2008 12:54:41 AM
excellent perspective and depth of field here, congrats on a great, original shot. 9
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03/19/2008 12:16:33 AM
Nice shot but i cant see how the fish market ties into this


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